GBS/OATH is a pro multitrack recording facility. We have several recording
platforms to maximize flexibility for the client. This way we can
best serve your needs. For example, you could track drums or basic
tracks at our studio and then take the tracks to your home studio
for overdubs, saving you lots o' cash. Then bring the tracks back
here, integrate them seamlessly with our system, and mix or master
with our powerful console and mastering tools. Or bring tracks
recorded at home here to overdub vocals with...say, a Neuman or BLUE
mic, through world-class preamps and compressors. Anything to make
the project a success, and to help the client maximize their budget.
We not only have two separate Digidesign ProTools Systems, we also
have most of the popular PC recording platforms.
RECORDING PLATFORMS
- Protools HD TDM (24 bit 96k)
- Protools Mix 24
- Digital Performer (24 bit 96k)
- Alesis ADAT (32 tracks)
- Tascam 8 track 1/2 inch analog reel to reel for all you garage rockers.
- Surround Sound Mixing and Mastering 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
- PC platforms w MOTU 828 firewire interface
- Steinberg Nuendo
- Steinberg Wavelab
- Sonar Producer's Edition
- Logic
- DVD Authoring
- 2 Mac Powerbook G4's w ProTools, MOTU DP4.5, Peak, JAM, etc
- Remote Recording- Live remote recording capabilities. We can
multitrack your next show for a live, fully professional studio
quality album.
2- TRACK RECORDING PLATFORMS
(for mixing & mastering)
- Mac G4: ProTools, Peak VST, etc
- PC: M-Audio 24/96, Steinberg Wavlab, etc
- Tascam DA-30 mkII DAT Recorder
- Tascam DA-30 DAT Recorder
- Tascam 1/2 inch analog reel to reel
- Pioneer 1/4 inch analog reel to reel
MIXING CONSOLE
 Mackie Digital 8 Bus (56-input) - The heart of
Studio A is our Mackie D8B digital console. This is a very, very powerful device
with incredible DSP (digital signal processing) and total fully recallable
automated mixing. With our ProTools/Mackie D8B combination, what we're doing
here is imitating world class studios in our own humble way. Many major label
releases are recorded using ProTools, and ProTools itself is a very powerful
platform in its own right, but many if not most of major label records are still
mixed, even if they're coming out of ProTools, with a mixing console, the SSL
(Solid State Logic) being far away most professionals choice. These are million
dollar consoles with a fabulous signature sound. The good folks at Mackie have
designed the D8B very much along the lines of these famous SSL mixers. So much
so that many major studios have Mackies as mixing console in their B rooms. So
say many famous producers, such as Rodney Jerkins (one of the hottest producers
going these days: Beyonce, etc) they did such a great job that one "doesn't know
if you mixed on an SSL or a Mackie board."
We do this because we're greedy. We want these sounds for our own records. And
for our clients records. And we don't want to have to charge million dollar
rates to our wonderful friends, our clients. Ah, yes, we're greedy and clever.
And Eric's gay. OK, not really. But he dresses really snappy! |
MONITOR SPEAKERS
- Mackie HR824 (5 units! --for surround mixing!)
- Yahmaha NS-10
- Tannoy PBM 6.5
- Alesis Monitor One
- EV Sentry Monitors
- Panasonic boombox (ah, yes, the essential boombox mix test)
- JVC boombox (the 2nd essential boombox mix test)
- Radioshack Auratone type
HEADPHONES
(6 to 10 separate mixes available!)
- AKG Gold K 240 headphones
- Beyer Dynamic Pro 770 headphones (soooo comfortable!)
MIC PRE'S & COMPRESSORS
- Avalon
- Demeter
- Focusrite
- ART
- Bellari
- Empirical Labs
Distressor
- dbx
MICROPHONES
- Neuman, BLUE, AKG, Sennheiser, Beyer, Shure, Audio Technics, Crown,
etc
- Manley Gold Reference Mic available upon request
- Neuman vintage M49
available upon request
- Full-body massage by
Travis upon request
SIGNAL PROCESSING
- TC Electronics Finalizer Plus
- TC Electronics M2000 Studio Effects Processor
- Lexicon LXP-5
- Lexicon LXP-1
- Lexicon MRC MIDI Remote Effects Controller
- Roland SRV2000
- Yahmaha D1500 digital delay
- Roland SE-50 (2)
- BBE 862 Sonic Maximizer
- ZSYS Lightpipe Digital Detangler Patchbay
INSTRUMENTS
- Gibson Les Paul standard
- Telecaster
- 70's Ibanez Artist double cutaway
- J. Thomas Davis handmade acoustic 6
string
- Gibson acoustic guitars 6 and 12 string
- Goya classical guitar
- Alvarez Yari DY-77 6 string acoustic
- 5 String Banjo (vintage 70's)
- Peavey classic 50 half stack
- Mesa Boogie amplification
- Sequential Circuits Pro One analog synth
- Roland Juno 60 analog synth
- Roland D50 synth
- Roland keyboard MIDI controller
- Hammond organ *(available upon request)
- Roland U220 synth
- Yahmaha RX-15 drum machine
- Roland DDR-30 Digital Drums
- Lowrey Genie Organ (no kidding)
- *extensive* sample library- strings, pianos, horns, sound FX, etc.
- Flute- Buescher Silver Aristocrat
- Lira accordion
- Button accordion concertina - slavic scale
- Violin - Anton Schroetter (German)
- LP Congas
- various percussion
- and...Eric plays the nose flute
POWER
We have a Balanced Power system at OATH Studios. This very clean and stable type of
electrical current allows our equipment to operate with extremely low-noise, critical for high-quality digital recording. This is the same type of system used in hospitals for very delicate electronics. |
